16th June, 7 p.m. Focused on “Smarter tools,
easier life”, iLab 2nd 49hours Hackathon was held in Wisdom Center with
participants passion to start a business. iLab 2nd 49 hours Hackathon is held by iLab and
supported by INESA, Xuhui District Government and Microsoft(China). With mentor
teams to help competitors, 10 judges from different industries, the most
competitive participants were chosen.

VOX team have 5 team member: Zhou Yang, Jiang
Chenyue and Xia Cenqing from SIST, ShanghaiTech, Pan Yuchong from UBC, Li Yiluo
from UCSB. They built a creative product that redefined the sound, VOX. VOX
visualizes sound information into flow chat. Even though they were the last
road show team, team leader Zhou Yang was so energetic as if he was at WWDC or
Google I/O. VOX received praise from both judges and audience and won the first
prize.

Team Screen++, made up by Rong Yuyang, Cai
Jianxiong, Su Junyan, Hu Zhen and Shen Fanti from SIST, ShanghaiTech, designed
a solution for multi screens. They noticed that people are having more and more
screens nowadays so they decided to provide a software that “connects” all of
the screens by sharing mice, keyboard and screens over devices to make users
life easier. As they conquered most technical problems over all the teams, they
won 3rd prize.

The team I’m here involves Xiong Zhaoping from
SLST, ShanghaiTech, and managers from companies outside the campus. They
proposed an indoor navigation system based on photos instead of GPS. Such
solution can be used widely in malls and won the 3rd prize for their
technologies.